3 things are important for Barkas steering. 1. The original tall side 6,70-13 tyres, (you can buy it today fresh aftermarket ones) 2. the original big steering wheel (this old model has the old 311 Wartburg steering wheel later it changed) 3. the front suspension spindle bolt has pin bearing which needs good lubrication. If water get insinde it can rost under a week A good adjusted (dual-duplex front brakes-need some knowledge to adjust properly) and good ferodo materials use brake system works like any other car from this period. The VW T1 has worse brake than Barkas. (simplex front and rear also) The blue smoke looks bad today but it is less harmfull than a modern diesel car's unvisible cancer causing particles. Two stroke engines don't produce NOx !

@Simon-dm8zv

3 жыл бұрын

Lol 2 stroke engines produce loads of carcinogen emissions including NOx.

@ravenouself4181

2 жыл бұрын

@@Simon-dm8zv So do 4 stroke engines. The difference being one produces the blue smoke due to oil and petrol not being fully combusted and the other produces blue smoke when the engine has some sort of internal failure that compromises the combustion capability.

@Simon-dm8zv

2 жыл бұрын

@@ravenouself4181 Correct.

@unconventionalideas5683

2 жыл бұрын

Diesel engines, at least here in the US, are cleaner than even four stroke gasoline engines, even in this regard, and this holds on the road as well as during the tests. Mind you, US gasoline engines are substantially cleaner than Euro-Spec ones, because the US has such strict laws and standards for emissions. California's are stricter than the Feds, but the Federal Standards are stricter than any standard formulated by any non-US government. So this is, by comparison, horrible. But that's the US. Europe is perhaps a little different, as was discovered during the diesel emissions scandal.

I had a 1990 Barkas pickup in UK in 2018 I never found it a problem to drive. Brakes worked well and steering although slightly heavy whilst low speed manoeuvring was never a problem. The engine was easy to work on and could be dropped out from underneath in a short time the reason I sold it was the chassis center box section was getting thin due to rust. ( I still doubled my money though when I sold it). Great vehicles and so much more cooler than a VW bus.

@Skoda130

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, to me this looks more like crappy maintenance.

@XxEvYx

Жыл бұрын

They also produced 4 takt? maybe you had one of those? Currently looking in to buying a 2 takt Barkas B1000 so all advice is welcome.

In the end of the 80th on a holiday in austria a couple with a barkas arrived at the camping place. The next morning a carpet was holding a open motor with all parts around, couple wat walking tot the small city to buy replacements. The say it's like a bycicle motor not a complex system. And after an hour of 2 they left with their barkas.

@Ragnar8504

Жыл бұрын

Finding spares for a Barkas in Austria must have been interesting!

I can almost smell it. Wonderful. It bring me back to Hungary in the old days. My uncle had a flatbed version. I remember the doors being rather "clunky".

@Ragnar8504

Жыл бұрын

I spent my summer holidays in a small Hungarian village from 1995 to 1999 and if I remember correctly the owner of the ABC (grocery store) had a grey Barkas van exactly like this one. For only having a few hundred inhabitants there was surprisingly much infrastructure in that tiny hamlet - said grocery store, an even smaller hardware store, a post office and several slightly dodgy-looking bars/cafés. I seem to remember two wine/beer houses and one kávéház called something like Fortuna presszó. That far out in the sticks there were still plenty of Eastern Bloc cars in the late 90s, Trabant, Wartburg, Skoda, the occasional Lada and once I even saw an UAZ 469. I've got relatives in eastern Germany and spent one memorable summer holiday there as a 5-year-old riding in my aunt's blue Trabant and my uncle's red Lada, that probably sparked my fascination with communist cars. The motorways were amazing too, incredibly bumpy concrete panels and my parents' Mitsubishi van wasn't exactly known for its refined smooth ride. I really enjoyed the bumps as a kid though.

A wonderful piece of history!!! BTW, I found your channel because I own a Lada Niva 2121, just like the one you just buy. I would love to convert that to electric as well. Great Channel!!

As my East German dad keeps saying “East Germany wasn’t communist”.

Reminds me of my 1966 VW bus I had back in the mid 80s. The main difference was it would reliably take us on a 500 mile vacation at highway speeds, without breaking down, and no smoke!

Damn electric car bullshit.... Twostroke ist the future💪💪

@KiwiEVadventures

5 жыл бұрын

You cheeky bugger. :D

@NICK_ORANGE

2 жыл бұрын

You're right!

@user-dt5iv5yi5b

Жыл бұрын

At least the engine drives and drives and drives

I had a similar experience driving a friend´s old UAZ, you need to go to the gym to drive those things..

Excellent car. I had a Wartburg, also very good.

I needed to hear the sound of a barkas with the two stroke engine sounds just like any other two stroke without reeds or a powervalve

I'm in Love with the Project already

I remember the Times,when I was a kid,loads of them în România.

Fantastic video mate.

The guy added a solar panel and a mini power station at the back... why didn't it cross his mind to add power steering and better braking (too)?!

How very Hubnut! It just shows you what happens when you let the System do all the thinking Comrade.

Ewwwww. Noisy, Smoky ICE car featured on KiwiEV !!! p.s Always love your videos !

Farty hans, van sized. Great shape for its age other than the brakes.

Absolutely terrifying and I love it!

That car has 50cc more than an Austin Healey Spri te, the original Bug eyed model.

i have seen a Barkas before, on a Trabant Meet, there were a lot a Trabants a Skoda 1000 and a Barkas

Very interesting! I would definitely fix or upgrade the brakes as a priority. Then sort out the steering. Ultimately it would be great to convert to an EV, you could line the entire floor with lithium batteries.

Here you are, ecologically minded, clean, suggesting to convert the car to electric, and here's the American in me saying "throw an LS into it" 😄

Wow! The Spy x Family Van!

Brilliant :-D

It was extremely fun :))))

Sounds like my dad's old lambretta

Krásnej barkas

Its very close to the DKW van of the 1960s

English speaking czhecs man -- very rare!

@endroo93

3 жыл бұрын

Cause he's slovakian, lol.

Zero common sense design except being cheapest materials possible. POS cars, we had one

As with the Trabant, I think the two-stroke version would be difficult to register in Japan due to emission limits.

@user-dt5iv5yi5b

Жыл бұрын

Don't you have a class for historic cars like Germany has?

And the engine is in front! Seems quite advanced for a DDR vehicle.

@milfhunter6999

5 жыл бұрын

It’s an normal ddr two Stroke I think it’s the Same like in the Wartburg.And the Esst German cars were all Advanced by the Time there were Build but there were Build a Long Time without any big upgrades. For example the Trabant 601 was Build from 1959 Till 1989

@mmb2111

5 жыл бұрын

The basic construction of engine goes back to 1939 DKW F9. Due to WWII this car started into production from 1950 as IFA F9 in East Germany and DKW 3=6 in West Germany. This basic 990 cc 3-cyl water cooled engine was produced for Wartburg cars and these cute vans until 1989 - a mere 50 years! Nothing to do with Trabant (air-cooled!) or Soviet Union....

@Ragnar8504

Жыл бұрын

All DDR vehicles were front engine I think. Czechoslovak Skodas and Tatras and Soviet Zaporoshez were rear-engine designs. Tatra built luxury cars like the 87 with an air-cooled rear-mounted V8 engine! A bit like a Corvair on steroids I guess.

the gear shifter ergonomics look uncomfortable

That's like the old DKW cars engine wise!

@user-dt5iv5yi5b

Жыл бұрын

Exactly mate

Oh, my! I saw the same thing in Berlin in 2019! 😅

i never knew Barkas B1000 shift was all the way on back thats hard

sounds like a pissed off moped with a bad hair day

it is really a easy car to drive. but if you only have been driving modern cars. well then welcome to the old school world ;)

Прикольна тачка, вставити донором нісана ліфа, і стане олскульно-сучасною машиною

What an awesome piece of history in excellent condition! As cool as it would be to make it an EV, it seems a shame to take away its smokey soviet soul!

i wishd id had some day barkas b1000 yellow and blue and green

i wishd id had some day barkas b1000 red and blue and yellow

Здравствуйте,я живу в россии ,имею автомобиль баркас 1000,есть ли у вас промежуточный сателит на кпп.

Ha! Brilliant..Judging buy the way it drives and the amount of fumes produced, It's almost as if the manufacturer actually set out to kill the occupants and anyone unfortunate enough to be passing by! ☺

@quas392

5 жыл бұрын

Might I add, they used these as ambulances in the GDR. Not kidding.

This car was build in a time, when the people of the GDR didnt know that KIWIS are on the world

@user-dt5iv5yi5b

Жыл бұрын

They knew it was there, it was just hard to get

🤚

This had anything to do with DKW F1000 ?

@Runeakb

4 жыл бұрын

Engine wise I think so yes. Origined in Jørgen Skafte Rasmussens design from many years ago

It's a strange, technically poor tool. It was manufactured with the poor technology of ddr in the time of cccp.

Did all Barkas cars have such crappy brakes or only this particular model that Adrian has has damaged braking system?

@IFA353

5 жыл бұрын

my Barkas stops perfectly!

@LeSarthois

4 жыл бұрын

The Barkas is notorious for his spectacular tendency to nosedive and get the rear wheels off the ground (when not loaded) (search for "Barkas braking" on KZread) when braking is applied hard, so yes, Barkas have an effective braking system.

@adid.5585

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, guys, for the answers. I am asking so that I could judge what the chances are to rescue such a vehicle nowadays. Bad brakes would clearly mean the car is not fit for traffic, so that's not desired.

@user-dt5iv5yi5b

Жыл бұрын

It's a car from the 60s so don't expect 30m break way with 100kmh

Barkas b1000

My short summary of socialist vehicles. 20 years the same, no power, high consumption, loud noise, no power steering, no air conditioning, no electric windows. Well, let's not forget the winter starts. The whole family made money on the vehicle for several years. Spare parts not available. I know a lot of criticism, but these are my memories of socialist vehicles.

@user-dt5iv5yi5b

Жыл бұрын

And still there are people saying how good communism and socialism is

auckland driver no suvivor, more like slovak driver no survivor

what an awful place to put the gear lever, definitely communist